Recent Scholarship
Religion
Beard, Gary Lee, “Georg Landgraf: A Pioneer Nineteenth Century Midwestern Lutheran Pastor, Part 2,” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, 81 (Spring 2008), 35–60.
Binzley, Ronald A., “Ganganelli’s Disaffected Children: The Ex-Jesuits and the Shaping of Early American Catholicism, 1773–1790,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Spring 2008), 47–77.
Blum, Edward J., “Race and Christian Scholarship: The Case of W. E. B. Du Bois,” Fídes et Hístoría, 40 (Winter–Spring 2008), 25–41.
Carter, Michael S., “‘What Shall We Say to This Liberal Age?’: Catholic-Protestant Controversy in the Early National Capital,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Spring 2008), 79–95.
Cooney, Jonathan, “‘The Means of Doing Some Good’: The Methodist Female Relief Society of Boston, 1828–1868,” Methodist History, 46 (Jan. 2008), 114–23.
Crouse, Eric, “Senator Margaret Chase Smith against McCarthyism: The Methodist Influence,” Methodist History, 46 (April 2008), 167–78.
Curran, Robert Emmett, “Ambrose Marèchal, the Jesuits, and the Demise of Ecclesial Republicanism in Maryland, 1818–1838,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Spring 2008), 97–110.
Danielson, Leilah, “‘It Is a Day of Judgment’: The Peacemakers, Religion, and Radicalism in Cold War America,” Religion and American Culture, 18 (Summer 2008), 215–48.
Douglas, Bill R., “Penn in Technicolor: Cecil Hinshaw’s Radical Pacifist-Perfectionist Experiment at William Penn College, 1944–1949,” Quaker History, 96 (Fall 2007), 54–68.
Hamm, Thomas D., “Quakerism, Ministry, Marriage, and Divorce: The Ordeal of Priscilla Hunt Cadwalader,” Journal of the Early Republic, 28 (Fall 2008), 407–31.
Hartmann-Ting, L. E., “The National Catholic School of Social Service: Redefining Catholic Womanhood through the Professionalization of Social Work during the Interwar Years,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Winter 2008), 101–19.
Hickman, Jared, “The Theology of Democracy,” New England Quarterly, 81 (June 2008), 177–217.
Holley, Val, “Slouching towards Slaterville: Joseph Morris’s Wide Swath in Weber County,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Summer 2008), 247–64.
Kirkendall, Richard S., “Faith and Foreign Policy: An Exploration into the Mind of Harry Truman,” Missouri Historical Review, 102 (July 2008), 214–24.
Kneeland, Timothy W., “Robert Hare: Politics, Science, and Spiritualism in the Early Republic,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 132 (July 2008), 245–60.
Krebsbach, Suzanne, “Black Catholics in Antebellum Charleston,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 108 (April 2007), 143–59.
Lancaster, Sarah Heaner, “Ecclesiology and Ministry in the Methodist Church (1939–1968),” Methodist History, 46 (April 2008), 156–66.
Lindell, Lisa R., “‘Sowing the Seeds of Liberal Thought’: Unitarian Women Ministers in Nineteenth-Century South Dakota,” South Dakota History, 38 (Summer 2008), 148–80.
MacKinnon, William P., “Sex, Subalterns, and Steptoe: Army Behavior, Mormon Rage, and Utah War Anxieties,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Summer 2008), 227–46.
Mannard, Joseph, “Widows in Convents of the Early Republic: The Archdiocese of Baltimore, 1790–1860,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Spring 2008), 111–32.
Martínez, Juan Francisco, “Nineteenth-Century Protestant Missionaries’ Perceptions of the Penitente Brotherhood,” New Mexico Historical Review, 83 (Summer 2008), 353–70.
Masatsugu, Michael K., “‘Beyond This World of Transiency and Impermanence’: Japanese Americans, Dharma Bums, and the Making of American Buddhism during the Early Cold War Years,” Pacific Historical Review, 77 (Aug. 2008), 423–51.
McDaniel, Eric L., and Christopher G. Ellison, “God’s Party? Race, Religion, and Partisanship over Time,” Political Research Quarterly, 61 (June 2008), 180–91.
McGuinness, Margaret M., “Urban Settlement Houses and Rural Parishes: The Ministry of the Sisters of Christian Doctrine, 1910–1986,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Winter 2008), 23–42.
Meyer, Scott J., “Missouri Synod Chicagoland Churches and Home Missions: Part 1,” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, 81 (Spring 2008), 10–34.
Olree, Andy G., “James Madison and Legislative Chaplains,” Northwestern University Law Review, 102 (Winter 2008), 145–221.
Petit, Jeanne, “‘Organized Catholic Womanhood’: Suffrage, Citizenship, and the National Council of Catholic Women,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Winter 2008), 83–100.
Proud, James, “A Note on John Woolman’s Paternal Ancestors: The Gloucestershire Roots; The West New Jersey Plantation,” Quaker History, 96 (Fall 2007), 28–53.
Pycior, Julie Leininger, “Bearing Witness: Catherine De Hueck Doherty and the ‘Gospel of Dorothy Day,’” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Winter 2008), 43–66.
Pyne, Tricia T., “Ritual and Practice in the Maryland Catholic Community, 1634–1776,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Spring 2008), 17–46.
Rossi, Joseph S., “Jesuits, Slaves, and Scholars at ‘Old Bohemia,’ 1704–1756,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Spring 2008), 1–15.
Shaw, Susan M., “Gracious Submission: Southern Baptist Fundamentalists and Women,” National Women’s Studies Association Journal, 20 (Spring 2008), 51–77.
Shepard, William, “Shadows on the Sun Dial: John E. Page and the Strangites,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 41 (Spring 2008), 34–66.
Skok, Deborah A., “The Historiography of Catholic Laywomen and Progressive Era Reform,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Winter 2008), 1–22.
Teasdale, Mark, “Peter Cartwright and the Emerging National Identity in Antebellum America,” Methodist History, 46 (Jan. 2008), 101–13.
Watt, David Harrington, “Jews, Fundamentalism, and Supersessionism,” Fídes et Hístoría, 40 (Winter–Spring 2008), 1–23.
White, Andrew, “A ‘Consuming’ Oppression: Sugar, Cannibalism, and John Woolman’s 1770 Slave Dream,” Quaker History, 96 (Fall 2007), 1–27.
Wood, Linda Sargent, “Contact, Encounter, and Exchange at Esalen: A Window onto Late Twentieth-Century American Spirituality,” Pacific Historical Review, 77 (Aug. 2008), 453–87.
Azaransky, Sarah April, “The Dream is Freedom: Pauli Murray’s Theology of American Democracy” (University of Virginia, 2007). Order No. DA3282489.
Boyd, Stacy C., “Black Men Worshipping: Intersecting Anxieties of Race, Gender, and Christian Embodiment” (Emory University, 2007). Order No. DA3279861.
Brailey, Carla D., “A Critical Analysis of Black Preachers’ Sermons in the Electronic-Digital Age (1980 to 2005): A Quest for Social Change” (Howard University, 2007). Order No. DA3283225.
Brazell, Charles F., Jr., “Reluctant Restorationist: Thomas Campbell’s Trial and Its Role in His Legacy” (University of Texas, Arlington, 2007). Order No. DA3288885.
Bulthuis, Kyle Timothy, “Four Steeples over the City Streets: Trinity Episcopal, St. Philip’s Episcopal, John Street Methodist, and African Methodist Episcopal Zion Churches in New York City, 1760–1840” (University of California, Davis, 2007). Order No. DA3282951.
Eichler-Levine, Jodi, “Memory’s Offspring: Uses of the Past in Jewish, Latter-Day Saint, and African American Children’s Literature” (Columbia University, 2007). Order No. DA3285069.
Glascott, Brenda Marguerite, “The Ends of Literacy Education: Evangelical Protestantism and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of Contemporary Writing Instruction” (University of Pittsburgh, 2007). Order No. DA3284564.
Johnson, Gregory O., “From Morning Watch to Quiet Time: The Historical and Theological Development of Private Prayer in Anglo-American Protestant Instruction, 1870–1950” (Saint Louis University, 2007). Order No. DA3280209.
Manigault, LeRhonda S., “‘Ah Tulk to de Dead All de Time’: Religion among Gullah/Geechee Women of the Carolina Lowcountry” (Emory University, 2007). Order No. DA3279884.
Marchand, Rebecca Giacosie, “The Impact of the Second Vatican Council on the Concert Mass in the United States” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007). Order No. DA3285836.
McConnell, Kent Alan, “‘There Must Be Tears in the Houses’: A Search for Religious Meaning from the Carnage of the American Civil War” (University of Virginia, 2007). Order No. DA3288356.
Miller, Randall H., “Colored Justice: Situating Martin Luther King’s Justice Ethic within Normative Theoretical Discourse” (Graduate Theological Union, 2007). Order No. DA3289820.
Thich, Quang Minh, “Vietnamese Buddhism in America” (Florida State University, 2007). Order No. DA3282670.
Withrow, Brandon G., “‘Full of Wondrous and Glorious Things’: The Exegetical Mind of Jonathan Edwards in His Anglo-American Cultural Context” (Westminster Theological Seminary, 2007). Order No. DA3286653.
Zietsma, David, “Imagining Heaven and Hell: Religion, National Identity, and U.S. Foreign Relations, 1930–1953” (University of Akron, 2007). Order No. DA3280836.
Andrain, Charles F., Political Justice and Religious Values. (New York: Routledge, 2008. xiv, 233 pp. Cloth, $115.00, isbn 978-0-415-98964-0. xiv, 233 pp. Paper, $32.95, isbn 978-0-415-98965-7.)
Bial, Raymond, The Shaker Village. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. 41 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8131-2489-6.) Heavily illustrated.
Erling, Maria, and Mark Granquist, The Augustana Story: Shaping Lutheran Identity in North America. (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2008. x, 390 pp. Paper, $29.00, isbn 978-0-8066-8025-5.)
Golway, Terry, ed., Catholics in New York: Society, Culture, and Politics, 1808–1946. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. 206 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8232-2904-8.) Heavily illustrated. Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Griffith, R. Marie, and Melani McAlister, eds., Religion and Politics in the Contemporary United States. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xii, 536 pp. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-8018-8868-7.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Irons, Peter, God on Trial: Landmark Cases from America’s Religious Battlefields. (New York: Penguin, 2007. xx, 362 pp. Cloth, $26.95, isbn 978-0-670-03851-0. Paper, $16.00, isbn 978-0-14-311375-1.)
Lindlof, Thomas R., Hollywood under Siege: Martin Scorsese, the Religious Right, and the Culture Wars. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xii, 394 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-8131-2517-6.)
Neese, Stephen T., Algernon Sidney Crapsey: The Last of the Heretics. (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. vi, 458 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-84718-395-8.)
Prentiss, Craig R., Debating God’s Economy: Social Justice in America on the Eve of Vatican II. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. xii, 267 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-271-03341-9.)
Tyson, John R., Assist Me To Proclaim: The Life and Hymns of Charles Wesley. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007. xii, 356 pp. Paper, $22.00, isbn 978-0-8028-2939-9.)
Smith, Joseph, Jr., trans., The Book of Mormon. (New York: Penguin, 2008. xxxvi, 598 pp. $15.00, isbn 978-0-14-310553-4.) First published in 1830.
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